Jeffrey Steele
Biography
Dr. Jeffrey Steele is an Associate Professor in French Studies at the Department of Language studies at the University of Toronto with graduate appointments in the Language & Literacy Program (LLE) at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) and the tri-campus French program.
Research interests
Dr. Steele’s research interests include bilingualism and second language learning, phonetics, assessment, and evaluation. His latest SSHRC-funded research project is called Reading Comprehension among Majority and Minority Language Children in French Immersion: The Contribution of Oral Language Skills and Reading Strategies and investigates English-French cross-language transfer as well as the effects of the majority/minority status on language and literacy learning.